Meanwhile, a Cisco’s Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Trends report predicted mobile data traffic is expected to account for 20% of IP traffic and that 12 billion mobile devices will be in service by 2021.

Video is expected to have the highest growth, representing a predicted 76% of all mobile traffic by 2021.

Vice President of Service Provider Marketing at Cisco, Doug Webster, remarked “As a result, broader and more extensive architectural transformations involving programmability and automation will also be needed to support the capabilities 5G enables, and to address not just today’s demands but also the extensive possibilities on the horizon.”